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Revision as of 22:47, 30 April 2009 by imported>Fivetonsofflax (euterkuh and fivetonsofflax)
Thu 30 Apr 2009 in Mannheim, Germany:
49.4212775, 8.6448926
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Location

The hashpoint is at a playground in Wieblingen.

Panorama playground.jpg

Expedition

ilpadre

Despite severe time constraints, the hashpoint was too close to not go there. And by go, I mean run. A full report will follow next week.

euterkuh and fivetonsofflax

Piece of cake. This was a very good opportunity to get the Walk and the Tron Achievements. We met at Euterkuh's place, took two bottles of beer each with us and started from there. The distance was about 2.7 kilometers.

Shortly after we started we got attacked by huge swarms of gnats who lived at the Neckar River. We resisted their vile attacks on us and their attempts to get into our beer. We passed two weird children, one of whom almost collected one of our empty bottles. We soon reached the hashpoint and looked for ilpadre's xkcd marker. After we had taken a few photos, fivetonsofflax ate a waffle and we went on our way back.

We wanted to claim the Tron achievement, so when the following dialogue ensued: "You do know that we have to turn left?" - "Yes, well that's where we came from." So we decided to make sure we could get the achievement and tried to take another way back. It all went well for a while. but after we had passed a field of rape, the way ended next to the tram tracks. We crossed them, went backwards, which suddenly turned out to be the right direction. Then we came to a huge fallow area close to the main station. It had gotten pretty dark by then and although this was our closest hashpoint yet, it was also the most adventurous. We somehow managed to get back to civilized areas and went straightly to our favourite Asian restaurant to have some sweet-and-sour meat... stuff.